2nd Screen Actors Guild Awards

2nd SAG Awards

February 24, 1996

----Best Cast - Motion Picture:
Apollo 13 ----Best Cast - Drama Series:
ER ----Best Cast - Comedy Series:
Friends

The 2nd Screen Actors Guild Awards were presented on 24 February, 1996 in the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California, USA.

Nominees and Recipients

Film

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role

*"' Nicolas Cage - "Leaving Las Vegas"
*Anthony Hopkins - "Nixon"
*James Earl Jones - "Cry, the Beloved Country"
*Sean Penn - "Dead Man Walking"
*Massimo Troisi - "The Postman (Il postino)"

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role

*Joan Allen - "Nixon"
*"' Susan Sarandon - "Dead Man Walking"
*Elisabeth Shue - "Leaving Las Vegas"
*Meryl Streep - "The Bridges of Madison County"
*Emma Thompson - "Sense and Sensibility"

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role

*Kevin Bacon - "Murder in the First"
*Kenneth Branagh - "Othello"
*Don Cheadle - "Devil in a Blue Dress"
*"' Ed Harris - "Apollo 13"
*Kevin Spacey - "The Usual Suspects"

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role

*Stockard Channing - "Smoke"
*Anjelica Huston - "The Crossing Guard"
*Mira Sorvino - "Mighty Aphrodite"
*Mare Winningham - "Georgia"
*"' Kate Winslet - "Sense and Sensibility"

Outstanding Performance by a Cast

*"' "Apollo 13":Kevin Bacon:Tom Hanks:Ed Harris:Bill Paxton:Kathleen Quinlan:Gary Sinise
*"Get Shorty"
*"How to Make an American Quilt"
*"Nixon"
*"Sense and Sensibility"

Television

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries

*Alec Baldwin - "A Streetcar Named Desire"
*Laurence Fishburne - "The Tuskegee Airmen"
*James Garner - ""
*Tommy Lee Jones - "The Good Old Boys"
*"' Gary Sinise - "Truman"

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in Television Movie or Miniseries

*Glenn Close - ""
*Sally Field - "A Woman of Independent Means"
*Anjelica Huston - "Buffalo Girls"
*Sela Ward - ""
*"' Alfre Woodard - "The Piano Lesson"

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series

*George Clooney - "ER"
*David Duchovny - "The X-Files"
*"' Anthony Edwards - "ER"
*Dennis Franz - "NYPD Blue"
*Jimmy Smits - "NYPD Blue"

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

*"' Gillian Anderson - "The X-Files"
*Christine Lahti - "Chicago Hope"
*Sharon Lawrence - "NYPD Blue"
*Julianna Margulies - "ER"
*Sela Ward - "Sisters"

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series

*Jason Alexander - "Seinfeld"
*Kelsey Grammer - "Frasier"
*"' David Hyde Pierce - "Frasier"
*Paul Reiser - "Mad About You"
*Michael Richards - "Seinfeld"

Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series

*"' Christine Baranski - "Cybill"
*Candice Bergen - "Murphy Brown"
*Helen Hunt - "Mad About You"
*Lisa Kudrow - "Friends"
*Julia Louis-Dreyfus - "Seinfeld"

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series

*"Chicago Hope"
*"' "ER" :George Clooney:Anthony Edwards:Eriq La Salle:Julianna Margulies:Sherry Stringfield:Noah Wyle
*"Law & Order"
*"NYPD Blue"
*"Picket Fences"

Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series

*"Cybill"
*"Frasier"
*"' "Friends" :Jennifer Aniston:Courteney Cox:Lisa Kudrow:Matt Le Blanc:Matthew Perry:David Schwimmer
*"Mad About You"
*"Seinfeld"

Life Achievement Award

*Screen Actors Guild Awards 32nd Annual Life Achievement Award:
**Robert Redford